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Like rummaging through a box of old photo albums, using Lost Photos shows you all of the forgotten picture attachments lying dormant in your e-mail account. What's more, it downloads them onto your machine, and offers tools for sharing them directly with your social-network services. You can use it with your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, RocketMail, and yMail accounts, and even your (defunct) MobileMe account. Plus, its developers continue to add access to others.

Lost Photos' interface is about as straightforward as it gets. When you first open the program, type in the log-in information for one of your e-mail accounts, and hit Find My Photos. By default, the program ignores any attachments smaller than 8K, which is good for avoiding company logos and other unimportant elements from e-mail signatures. If you like, you can change this via the options screen. You can also choose to ignore images in GIF format or images received before a certain date. Unfortunately, though, you can't set any other specific search parameters and there are no downloading options.

If you've been using the same e-mail account for a long time, then prepare to wait a while as Lost Photos does its thing. For me, it took the program about an hour to sift through over 6,000 e-mails and find about 1,000 photos. So, don't be surprised if it takes more than a few minutes for you.

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Jaymar Cabebe covers mobile apps and Windows software for CNET. While he may be a former host of the Android Atlas Weekly podcast, he doesn't hate iOS or Mac. Jaymar has worked in online media since 2007.